Definition of Childhood

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childhood
n. juvenility, stage of being a child, youth

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Childhood Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Childhood
(n.)
The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
  
(n.)
The commencement; the first period.
  
(n.)
Children, taken collectively.
  

WordNet 2.0
childhood

Noun
1. the time of person's life when they are a child
(hypernym) time of life
(hyponym) girlhood, maidenhood, maidhood
(part-meronym) anal stage, anal phase
2. the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
(synonym) puerility
(hypernym) immaturity, immatureness

The Devil's Dictionary
CHILDHOOD
Childhood, (n.)

The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
  

hEnglish - advanced version
childhood

childhood
\child"hood\ (chīld"h&oocr;d), n. [as. cildhād; cild child + -hād. see child, and -hood.]
1. the state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. i have walked before you from my childhood. --1. sam. xii. 2.
2. children, taken collectively. [r.] the well-governed childhood of this realm. w. scott.
3. the commencement; the first period. the childhood of our joy.


Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
childhood
leanbaíocht f.

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Mabandod
Mabandod = n. childhood

Mabanoed
Mabanoed = n. childhood

Mabiaeth
Mabiaeth = n. childhood; filiality

Maboed
Maboed, Mabolaeth = n. childhood, infancy

Mebyd
Mebyd = n. infancy, childhood


Childhood Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries

English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan
Childhood
kan-wak


Childhood Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Childhood
Childhood (being a child) is a broad term usually applied to the phase of development in humans between infancy and adulthood.

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